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Quoth Sidrophel, If you suppose,
Sir Knight, that I am one of those,
I might suspect, and take th' alarm,
Your bus'ness is but to inform;
But if it be, 'tis ne'er the near,
You have a wrong sow by the ear.

— Samuel Butler Hudibras, Part II (1664)

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Love is a boy by poets styl'd;
Then spare the rod and spoil the child.

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Doubtless the pleasure is as great
Of being cheated as to cheat.

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As men of inward light are wont
To turn their optics in upon 't.

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For those that fly may fight again,
Which he can never do that's slain.

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Have always been at daggers-drawing,
And one another clapper-clawing.

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